The Odyssey of the Amazons #5

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If you aren't caught up on this, which you most likely aren't, I will post the rest of it after this issue.

>>92463735
Thanks anon. This any good? I honestly don't mind the art

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>>92463922
I'm actually not even caught up with it myself, but I really disliked the first issue, and I eventually read the second and thought it was a little better.

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The coloring reminds me of Meredith and David Finch's run on Wonder Woman, it's well done technically and makes the art look better than it is but it's very brown and boring.

Oh hey, Tex. Did you turn around on this? I thought you weren't much of a fan.

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>>92464008
Really, I'm posting it because I know no one else will remember to.

>>92464043
Well, for discussion, how do you think it could've been better?

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>>92464151
Well I'm gonna be reading the rest of it after I post this issue, so hopefully it gets better.

But my biggest problem so far is that I don't really get what the point of this is. The characters aren't recognizable Amazons, the action isn't interesting at all, it doesn't really have anything to do with Wonder Woman or the Amazons.

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It feels like everything I DON'T want Wonder Woman to be: overly focused on mythology and sword/sorcery, modern GRRL POWER where "badass" women effortlessly defeat hordes of faceless enemies, etc

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But I'm open to have my mind changed by reading the series from the start again.

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OK, I'm gonna post The Wild Storm in another thread and then be back

>>92464323
That note is pure cancer on every conceivable level.

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>Patty Jenkins acted out essentially the entire film for me over the course of two hours
Bless her heart.

>tfw you missed 2 issues of this and just can't be arsed to care

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Prepare thineself

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>>92464429

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This text reads like someone who's never read a word of the Greek epics.

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Tell me this doesn't look like a trailer for a movie you don't want to see.

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I'm gonna avoid speaking on how I think the Amazons should be characterized and just let this speak for itself.

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Ophelia is the one character I like here.

>>92464973
They've at least read the first paragraph of the Iliad ;^)

>>92464994
>swarthy, sun-kissed warriors of O'Kunga
Wow

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>>92465180
You can tell the writer was quite proud of that line.

>>92465213
Honestly, if anyone was actually reading this that's a thousand clickbait anti-DC articles right there.

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>>92465213
This is a pretty common thing in things with bad Wonder Woman/Amazon characterization: someone acknowledges that they're normally much more peaceful, as if this somehow absolves the violence.

>>92465342
This feels less like it was written and more like they pulled up something from the appropriate genre and clipped it onto the page. Nothing feels new, here? Or interesting?

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>Amazon beachbabes being ogled by pervert eagles

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That looks extremely painful.

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>Giants do what giants do
... Which is what? Be gigantic? Smell the blood of Englismen?

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There's a They Might Be Giants reference to be made there.

Also this looks like a Dragon Quest party.

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>Kevin Grevioux is best known for his role as Raze in the Underworld film series, which he co-created.
Well, that explains a bit.

>>92463735
IM reading it and I kinda like it.

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Apparently he created Blue Marvel as well.

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>>92465758
More power to you!

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Had to take a short break, currently catching up and will be right back.

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As a big fan of Simonson's Thor, I can say I see the potential for a neat story here. The Amazons going around the world, interacting with iconic versions of other mythologies? That sounds plenty cool to me.

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In practice, these just don't feel at all like Amazons to me. They're just female warriors. Nothing about them really seems uniquely Amazon or even Greek.

it is bland for me, nothing interesting

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It's refreshing that they're not just complete psychopaths like the Coda, I suppose.

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And even the scant characterization that was established in the first issue is basically nonexistent in the rest of the book.

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>>92467209
My feelings in a nutshell. There's just nothing here that makes me want to read it, even if it's not terribly written.

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It actually reminds me more of Simonson's recent Ragnarok comic for IDW than of anything Wonder Woman related.

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I will give it that it's making me eye my Simonson Thor omnibus for rereading yet again.

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I think I saw a hentai like this once

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Wait, I just realized that pretty much all the characters they introduced at the start that were even close to interesting have just been tied up there in Jotunheim this whole time.

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Ironically, it could be said that Diana's journey to man's world was fueled by pride in the Amazons' ways and a wanderlust.

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This looks suspiciously like a certain movie version of Asgard

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Frigga, Goddess of Bodacious Titties

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Well this got real stupid real fast

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I thought they had only found a couple of sisters

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Aaaand that brings us up to date.

This mini has been such a disappointment

With the Norse focus there is legitimately no reason to read this over Heathen.

>>92467305
But Ragnarok is good.

eh, still better than WW.

It bothers me that the main character in this is that black amazon bitch created by Charles Soule in Superman/Wonder Woman that constantly advised Wonder Woman into convincing Superman to accept his godhood.

>>92471923
It should have been Philippus or Nubia

>>92471923
Wow, if you hadn't pointed that out and I hadn't then looked it up I wouldn't have even known that.

Weird that they would even bother when EVERY other Amazon in the series is OC.

>Hessia is an Amazon living in London, where she works as a martial arts teacher. A friend and confidante of Diana, she revealed her friend's relationship with Superman to the world because she thought it would make them both better.
I don't remember a single thing about any of this!

>>92471963
That would have lent some weight to it. Nubia hasn't even appeared in New 52/Rebirth AFAIK so they could have done whatever they wanted with her.

>>92472095
>I don't remember a single thing about any of this!
Isn't this a defense mechanism?

>>92472121
That's probable. The only thing I remember about Superman/Wonder Woman is that I enjoyed at least one issue, but I have no idea which one it was or if I was simply delirious while reading it.

>>92463735
I'm reading it. I think it is poorly written and dumb to the point it confused Renaissance and pre Roman times but I'm reading it.

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>>92472095

Yeah, she was a huge cunt, together with Diana, in Superman/Wonder Woman. She also wore a very Witchblade like armor full of spikes and swords and shit. Terrible character.

>>92465482
>no quarter asked, and none given
That's an odd homage.

>>92463735

>>92464563

i too wish i really cared more... but with the movie out soon diana has to show up in this right?

this might not even get a trade huh?

>>92463809
>I will post the rest of it after this issue.
Thanks Texas anon for storytiming it.

None of these OC Amazons have any kind of defining character traits, and that's what really kills this book. It'd be fine to have a dirt simple story if the characters were interesting enough for us to want to watch them adventuring, but that simply isn't the case because they're all bland cutouts.

Is it arrogance to say that I could probably write a better book than this? I'd at least try to give these chicks personalities. Goddamn.

>>92479847
The writer clearly didn't care about characters. You have one character the writer made a samurai cause I guess they just wanted samurai. But the thing is samurai didn't exist until like the late middle ages and this is clearly an ancient mythology book. It is obvious the writer just threw whatever they though was neat and put no real thought into writing actual characters and just went Samurai! Aztec princess!